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Pictorial Stamps Of Western Samoa - An FDC

 
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smauggie
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Posted 09/16/2011   8:47 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add smauggie to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I found a new cover for my collection of world covers, and it had a surprise in it.

Here's the cover:


This is an FDC of the 1935 Western Samoa Pictorial series of 1935.

Inside, I found this:
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warrehouse
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Posted 09/16/2011   8:56 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add warrehouse to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Very nice, Smauggie
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smauggie
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Posted 09/16/2011   8:57 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add smauggie to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
You know I had to share.
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rod222
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Posted 09/16/2011   10:07 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Do you realise what you have?

Do you know who Stanley Phillips was?

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smauggie
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Posted 09/16/2011   10:10 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add smauggie to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
No and no. I am sure hope you are going to tell me.
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warrehouse
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Posted 09/16/2011   10:12 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add warrehouse to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Rod22, who is Stanley Phillips?
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rod222
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I am guessing here, but a good guess I reckon,
that cover is written in Stanley Phillips' own hand
he has addressed the cover to himself at "the strand london"

You have a cover written by a philatelist who has signed
The distinguished roll of philately.

An absolute gem for mine....(but still a guess)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Phillips

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smauggie
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Posted 09/16/2011   10:45 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add smauggie to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It makes sense. According to Wikipedia, 391 Strand was the home of Stanley Gibbons when this letter was mailed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Gibbons

Rod, you are a genius!

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BeeSee
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Posted 09/17/2011   12:39 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add BeeSee to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
That pictorial Samoa set is such a beaut!
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rod222
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Here you go Smauggie,
scanned from my library.

The very first Stanley Gibbons stamp Jourmal in 1927
Volume 1 number 1
and look who's name adorns the cover....

If I catch any of his handwriting, I'll let you know.



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